Tuesday, March 30, 2010

This is the layout I scrapped for Ellen in the swap over at Mystical. I wasn't going to post it here till Ellen got it but seeing as it fits in with the ruffles challenge over at Creative Prompts I have popped it up early. Thanks Ellen for letting me submit your layout.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

This week has been a busy one and it ended with a big scrappy weekend with me being lucky enough to spend sometime scrapping with friends on both Saturday and Sunday. Lucky me. I'll share what I have done a little later on it the post.

On Monday we got hit with some storms. Lots of wind, rain and hail and a bit of damage about too. At work our power went of, out for nearly 24 hours. We, Craig and I ended up with some hail dents in our cars. Nothing major though, thankfully as it would of been a long wait for a panel beater to fix it. Craig snapped this pic of Missy holding one of the hail stones that fell out at Mum's.

On Tuesday I popped down to one my local where I dt at for my usual scrap morning only to find that the power was out. I didn't get to do as much scrapping, spent most of the time chatting with Lou, Jordie, Mardi and topping up mu stash of Copic markers.

OnFriday Missy had crazy hair day at school so I raided to craft cupboard at work for some pipe cleaners and wound then around 5 piggies in her hair. lol She called herself the red back spider princess.

On the way out the door for school we noticed a parcel on our doorstep for Missy. She was so excited about it and here she is with some of what was inside.

An assortment of toys all the way from America from one of the players over at the Shabby blog, Zandra. She read on my blog a while back about Missy and the love she has for her Pet shop toys and offered to send some of them over for her that used to be her daughters, Gabby. Well they couldn't find them and sent over these instead.Thanks ever so much to you both. Missy has played with them all weekend.

Well that's my weekly wrap up. Here is what I have done scrappy wise this week.

When I was down there last week Jordie gave me some Grahic 45 papers to play around with for a possible heritage class. Here is sneak of what I came up with. Just a sneak for now until Jordie has seen the whole thing.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Has been a nice week and quiet weekend out here. Work as usual for me this week but with a nice end to it. It was our 10 year anniversary on Thursday so we all went for tea. A Greek smorgasbord. So yummy we will definitely be going back there again.On Friday night I went of to one of my locals for a crop with some of my scrappy pals. A good night with heaps of laughs too. I managed to walk out with two layouts and some Copic markers too. Guess where most of my store credit from teaching and the garage sale will be going.

Lou handed me another challenge with my dt pack this month. Some American Craft Dear lizzy. I am a fan of Thickers but not so much of their papers. It was really doing my head in at the crop on Friday.

My Missy.

Not my usual type of layout. lol Lou and Kat were even commenting on how flat it was. I used my favorite of the moment Doodled frame Purple Onion stamp.

After coming home with the copics on Friday night I spent most of the morning on the net doing some searching for tips and stuff and just had to have a play around. In my search I came across a Copic challenge blog and it is now in my blog lines. The challenge this time round was to use your favorite copic technique. lol I don't have one yet.

Spring card

If you have got any and want some great tips on using them make sure you pop in as they have a heap of links to tutorials in the side bar.If you have any other great places for tips on using them can you please pop a link in the comments.I used a doodled flower and Spring word from the Seasons stamp set from Purple onion.

Well this weekend has flown by as usual.Friday I did some more sorting out for a market on Saturday and a garage sale at our local in a few weeks. I then headed down to the local to tea die some doilies for a class next weekend. lol things I have to do when I thought being able to get hold of cream coloured doilies wouldn't be a problem.

Saturday I was up early and headed out to the market. I made $60 on more of Asher's old clothes, toys and stuff. One lady brought $30 in clothes. We then headed of to the shops where Missy got to spend some money that she had saved as well as the money from the sale of her dolls at the market. My FIL went through a stage where he would buy me and Asher a porcelain doll ever so often. We had six up on the top of Asher's wardrobe along with a clown for years without any issues until she started waking up with nightmares about a year ago. After about a week or so I finally got out of her what the problem was. She was having bad dreams about the dolls so they went into the sale box. She was wrapped that they were gone and she ended up with $25 to spend. We found a DS game she wanted to get and of we went to the counter to get it. All was going good until the lady couldn't find it in the drawer. I was going to leave our phone number for her to ring us as we had a few things to do at the shops but little miss attitude wasn't happy with that.

"Fine then I just won't get it" at the top of her voice and of she goes in a huff back towards the toy section.

In the end she found some more little pet shop toys to add to her collection along with an activity book.

Saturday night was more sorting for the garage sale and then same with today but throw into that, several loads of washing and some housework too. I now have all my stuff sorted, packed, priced and ready to go.

Well that is it from me for now. I am of to check out a few things on the computer then it will be shower and bed for this little tired scrapper.

I had a nice email during the week. The card set that I did up for the Therapy cyber crop has been acepted for publication. I just needed to make a third for the set. They also won the cyber crop challenge.

I had a great day out at my monthly 10 hour crop on Saturday and managed to get 3 cards, a gift bag and a layout finished.None that I can share as yet but will when I can.

Yesterday I had a major clean up day and today I scrapped and did some cooking. Long weekend all finished but not just yet as I don't work on Tuesdays so I have one more day up my sleeve.

Thanks for popping in and any comments and till next time happy creating.